Accelerate Your Leadership Skills

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A Leadership Development workshop delivered in the Toastmasters environment used to simulate, experience and reflect on effective leadership skills and how the Toastmasters Program supports their development. This workshop presented at the Toastmasters District 73 2012 Semi Annual Conference.

Transcript of Accelerate Your Leadership Skills

Accelerating your leadership development

Eric Pace

DCPDCPAcknowledging Non Toastmasters

Controlling the jargon

President’sDistinguishedPresident’s

Distinguished

OfficerList

OfficerList

CCCC

DTMDTM

ACLACL

Let’s Discuss

Q: What is the job of a leader?

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Let’s Discuss

Q: What is the job of club leaders?

Let’s Discuss

Q: What is the job of club leaders?

A: To help successfully manage their club to meet the needs of the members.

Let’s Discuss

Q: How do we know that a club is being run successfully?

What is our measurement tool?

Let’s Discuss

The Distinguished Club Program

Let’s Discuss

1 Two Competent Communicators

2 Two More Competent Communicators

3 One Advanced Communicator

4 One more Advanced Communicator

5 One Leader (CL/AL) or DTM

6 One More Leader or DTM

7 Four New Members

8 Four More New Members

9 Minimum of four officers trained twice

10 One Dues Renewal and One Club Officer List submitted on time

Distinguished Club Program Goals

Last year’s D73 DCP results

What’s wrong with this graph?

Exercise 1 (groups of 6 to 10 people - 10 Minutes)

You are to take on the role of a District Leader

Q1: List the 3 top reasons why clubs do not achieve distinguished status.

Q2: List 3 strategies to resolve this situation.

Let’s discuss

You are to take on the role of a District Leader

Q1: List the 3 top reasons why clubs do not achieve distinguished status.

Q2: List three strategies to resolve this situation.

Exercise 2 (Approx. 4 per group – 8 minutes)

What leadership skills were required to conduct the previous exercise?

Leadership skills required

Strategic thinking

Facilitation skills

Communication

Systemic thinking

Decision making

Active listening

Lateral thinking Problem solving Delegation

Team dynamicsDeveloping motivation

Time management

Personality management

Interpersonal skills

Goal setting

Leadership skills required

Strategic thinking

Facilitation skills

Communication

Systemic thinking

Decision making

Active listening

Lateral thinking Problem solving Delegation

Team dynamicsDeveloping motivation

Time management

Personality management

Interpersonal skills

Goal setting

Conclusion

This workshop simulated a leadership exercise so that you could practice leadership skills.

Same goes for Toastmasters Club Leadership

Conclusion

If this many leadership skills are used to have a 10 minute discussion about the Distinguished Club Plan imagine what can be learnt by taking a year to actively implement one.

Any questions

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